Modernist Poets Quotes & Sayings

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong. — Billy Graham

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis. — Nicholson Baker

They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good. — Bindi Irwin

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. — Christopher Atkins

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. — George Michael

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. — Eleanor Roosevelt

where we have more than sufficient resources and support that we eagerly share with one another - all because we understand on a bone-deep, soul-deep level that we are infinitely sustained by Source. (All that just from loving yourself!) When — Karen Curry

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation ... Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame. — Laura Riding

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer

I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good restaurant?" (In a robotic voice.) "I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France." "Why, Siri?" "I don't know." It's like she was upset with the French or something. "They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?" — Robin Williams

Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants. — Tom Turner

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. — William Carlos Williams